Dot and I have just returned from attending a resounding performance of 'Titanic': the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts one week, UNE's Lazenby Hall the next. It was very well done by a totally amateur group. The orchestra comprised local musicians conducted by one of my doctors, the cast was enormous - c. 50 strong, and the set was good. OK, the stage didn't sink beneath the waves, and our version lacked an iceberg. But, the set tilted appropriately to suggest a sinking ship and the lighting was excellent. The audience was enthusiastic, but the performers wouldn't give an encore - perhaps because they would have had to raise the titanic. The performance was certainly loud enough to raise the dead, so vigorous were the singers. And the director was George Torbay, brother of our local member and speaker of the house representatives.
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